Grand Canyon University RN to BSN Reviews

Howdy all, I bit the bullet and after much research, I decided on Grand Canyon! Wow, I did not expect BSN schools to be like used car salesmen--hounding me by emails and phone calls. Rather impressed on how Grand Canyon sort of left me alone, but at the same time kept in touch.

Commence my first class Sept 30th, excited, yet very nervous, as I'm not a big fan of school, LOL! I did extremely well on my Associate degree, graduated back in 2009 from Northern Virginia Community College. We shall see.

Would love to hear from past and present Grand Canyon RN to BSN students.

[rob4546, ADN, BSN, MSN]

And I think that the group assigned leader should provide feedback to the instructor about the participation of everyone in the group which will impact each persons earned grade. And the group leader should be closely scrutinized by the instructor as part of his/her grade.

All group communication should be placed in the group forum so that there is no questions about who completed what, who said what, who didn't do their assignment.....

[PuddlesMcNeal]

Not having that particular issue, but in the last 48 hrs. it is becoming clear the party that did the interview is thinking she can do a crap job and get away with it. We asked her to post the results of her interview with the questions. What we got was a scan of her handwritten notes with answers such as Yes”, No” next to some questions with no elaboration, and little to no elaboration on all the answers.

We had a thread already started discussing how to divide the PP portion. She started a thread labeled signed Provider Interview Acknowledgement form” where she provided the scanned copy of her interview notes. It was here she started discussing how she thought the PP should be divided – with someone else doing the detailed summary of her interview. Really??? Makes no logical sense to me that someone do that when you did the interview!! Have not seen a response from her yet in regards to my post back to her. If I do not get one, you can bet prof will be notified.

[Vegan_RN]

Hope you all had a good week :) Just waiting on my week 2 assignment's grade to be posted so I can submit my week 3 assignment. Yes, it is almost 9pm on Sunday, and this is my Capstone project. I'm not much of a happy camper, and I am super tired. Since each week's paper builds off the ones before it, I'd really like to know my grade before I submit this week's assignment!

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Hope you all had a good week :) Just waiting on my week 2 assignment's grade to be posted so I can submit my week 3 assignment. Yes, it is almost 9pm on Sunday, and this is my Capstone project. I'm not much of a happy camper, and I am super tired. Since each week's paper builds off the ones before it, I'd really like to know my grade before I submit this week's assignment!

That really sucks. I'm sorry. I wonder if this person does it to keep people from ditching the last week? Or mid week since they have to post on DQ's.

I'm curious on your word count so far. Will it go over the 5000 for the final paper? There was no way that was going to happen in my paper. I cut some, but it was roughly 1500 over.

[ro2878, ADN, BSN]

Just finished my first group project. UGH!!!!!!!!

Here comes the rant - buckle your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!

Member that only had the job of assembling the final power point and to submit did shall we say not the best job. So anal me does the tweaking (changing font sizes, moving text and moving pics, catching others' typos and their citing mistakes). Also point out there are some missing references from reference slide. Plus, ones on there not alphabetized, not formatted correctly with hanging indent, no italics where needed, missing info....).

i point this out a few times today and gave very detailed instructions to each member (since I felt like c'mon you guys fix your own stuff and I don't have their references anyway). Some mistakes get fixed on slides but assembly chickie then puts missing references on speaker notes! Again, I post that reference slide still incorrect and speaker notes now have to be corrected....

Well, even though I swore not gonna fix other people's work, I start fixing. While I am fixing and double checking on Purdue Owl, Chickie then posts that she corrected all mistakes and is going to submit. I am like Noooooo, stop the presses - I am fixing reference slide!!!!! While I am posting for her not to submit, she posts that she submitted. She gave everyone maybe 5 or 10 minutes and I was busy fixing their mistakes so I missed her saying she was submitting. All of a sudden here comes her next post that she turned it in and thanks everyone.

I then see the version she submitted and reference slide still full of mistakes that I pointed out at least 3 times.

I then post corrected version on forum and say maybe we can ask instructor if we can send her this corrected version since it was several hrs before assignment deadline (and my advisor said you could contact instructor in a case like this). I also text this to the group. Now here comes the texts!! One member, who has not chimed in at all today and I had to fix her stuff, says sorry just seeing posts/texts and thanks to the assembly chickie for making it look nice! (Hello???? i fixed it up to make it all pretty!). Now other 2 members text that the power point looked fine like I am just cray cray! Well, if you like mistakes then I guess it does look fine.....

I give up!!!! Guess, this is just the start with many, many more group project messes to come....

So sorry for the the giant post.

[La Cubanita RN]

Just wanted to jump in and say hi:) just finished up my 1st class on to the next one tomorrow. So far I really am enjoying it just had to get into the rhythm. Thanks for all your posts glad to know your all here and hopefully one day later this year I'll be here for others.

[NoodlespRN]

So sorry about your first CLC experience. I finish the program in 3 weeks and I can tell you that no matter what you do, idiots will prevail on the CLCs. Just do your best, document everything on the CLC forum, take a deep breath, and let it go. I have never received less than an A on any CLC - even when my group was an absolute disaster. Sometimes I think CLCs are just experiments to see how well we can play with others. Oh - another tip..... ALWAYS sign up to be the one who submits the project. I always start the CLC agreement and I always submit the project. That way I get to be the final eyes. I saw a school advertising an online BSN with no group work. I wish I could remember which one it was. Had I known how horrible CLCs would be, I might have paid double to go somewhere else to avoid them.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Just finished my first group project. UGH!!!!!!!!

Here comes the rant - buckle your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!

Member that only had the job of assembling the final power point and to submit did shall we say not the best job. So anal me does the tweaking (changing font sizes, moving text and moving pics, catching others' typos and their citing mistakes). Also point out there are some missing references from reference slide. Plus, ones on there not alphabetized, not formatted correctly with hanging indent, no italics where needed, missing info....).

i point this out a few times today and gave very detailed instructions to each member (since I felt like c'mon you guys fix your own stuff and I don't have their references anyway). Some mistakes get fixed on slides but assembly chickie then puts missing references on speaker notes! Again, I post that reference slide still incorrect and speaker notes now have to be corrected....

Well, even though I swore not gonna fix other people's work, I start fixing. While I am fixing and double checking on Purdue Owl, Chickie then posts that she corrected all mistakes and is going to submit. I am like Noooooo, stop the presses - I am fixing reference slide!!!!! While I am posting for her not to submit, she posts that she submitted. She gave everyone maybe 5 or 10 minutes and I was busy fixing their mistakes so I missed her saying she was submitting. All of a sudden here comes her next post that she turned it in and thanks everyone.

I then see the version she submitted and reference slide still full of mistakes that I pointed out at least 3 times.

I then post corrected version on forum and say maybe we can ask instructor if we can send her this corrected version since it was several hrs before assignment deadline (and my advisor said you could contact instructor in a case like this). I also text this to the group. Now here comes the texts!! One member, who has not chimed in at all today and I had to fix her stuff, says sorry just seeing posts/texts and thanks to the assembly chickie for making it look nice! (Hello???? i fixed it up to make it all pretty!). Now other 2 members text that the power point looked fine like I am just cray cray! Well, if you like mistakes then I guess it does look fine.....

I give up!!!! Guess, this is just the start with many, many more group project messes to come....

So sorry for the the giant post.

Some people are happy with mediocre. It makes me wonder what their grades were in their ADN program, and quality of their nursing care.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Just wanted to jump in and say hi:) just finished up my 1st class on to the next one tomorrow. So far I really am enjoying it just had to get into the rhythm. Thanks for all your posts glad to know your all here and hopefully one day later this year I'll be here for others.

Hi Gizelle,

If I haven't said it before, welcome to gcu!

[Winterwhite28]

Okay so this is way too long, allow me to just be mad for a minute:

My jaw dropped when I read this, how unbelievably rude. There are so many things wrong with each of those responses, not only from a CLC team member but from just a human perspective (I'll get to that later).

This person has obviously missed the concept of collaborative”. A student implied similar to me one time, basically telling me to keep my mitts off her piece (I was proofer/editor), because it was HER submission, it was her creativity and individuality and I did NOT have her permission to change it in any way. Individuality? Creativity? Really? Group/team projects (not only in this class, but in the real world of business) are supposed to be a collaboration of many people's research, expertise, input, etc., all formatted to appear to be one seamless, cohesive bulk of information in which the reader cannot discern where one author's input ends and another's begins. Have you ever read a professional, peer-reviewed research article by multiple authors and all of a sudden come across one paragraph that completely stands out with different grammar, lingo, sentence structure, font, etc? (I think I'll do mine in comic sans; that New Times Roman #12 is so stuffy. And Dr. So & So better not touch it, I'm expressing my creativity!”). Um, no. If Miss Smarty Pants were to bother to read the rubric for this (and all) CLC, she would see that the instructor, if he/she were so inclined, could take 10% right off the top for the Format/Layout. If you read each description under all 5 of the dots at the bottom of the rubric, what she submitted would warrant a 1 or 2 dot: cluttered, doesn't match, improper spacing, different fonts, etc. Oh, and she apparently missed the memo that PowerPoints are supposed to be limited to 6 bullet points and no more than 50 words. The bulk of the info goes in the speaker notes – one puts the highlights only on the slides, to grab the audience's attention, and then speaks about/describes each one in more detail (thus, why they're called speaker notes – duh). If the slides are too cluttered it defeats the purpose and your audience tunes out.

I realize I am catastrophizing this one incident, but (to me) this is a microcosm of what's wrong with society today: people's sense of entitlement, that everything they produce ought to be praised, and having no sense of how one's actions affect others. I think this attitude” is the reason I have hated my CLCs (and many of my coworkers) – as tokmom has said, you really can't cream those people who truly don't get it and are trying. It's those that basically flip you the bird and tell you to deal with it, I'm a rock star and you are an idiot” that make me want to hurt someone. The truly sad part is you will likely get an A on this project (as we did on ours) despite her ridiculosity, which validates and encourages the bad behavior. This is the same nurse that leaves at exactly 7:30 (backpack on lap and car keys in hand since 7:15), leaving you with overdue meds to give, critical lab values to call to the MD, lines to change out, calls to return to family, and a patient sitting in a caked-on c.diff mess since 5. Off soapbox, back to your regularly scheduled program.

You go girl, got your back!

I locked a PPT only once, and was super glad I did as the trouble maker in the group wanted to add more content on a slide that already had too much, but then she also wanted to restart the whole PPT on Sunday afternoon. Her and another called for a vote and BOOM off the island they went, of course dragging their sorry butts and making comments like don't agree but the team voted. That was the only CLC I ever lost any points. It was less then two points but it ticked me off because I think what we really lost points on was attitude!

[Winterwhite28]

Not having that particular issue, but in the last 48 hrs. it is becoming clear the party that did the interview is thinking she can do a crap job and get away with it. We asked her to post the results of her interview with the questions. What we got was a scan of her handwritten notes with answers such as Yes”, No” next to some questions with no elaboration, and little to no elaboration on all the answers.

We had a thread already started discussing how to divide the PP portion. She started a thread labeled signed Provider Interview Acknowledgement form” where she provided the scanned copy of her interview notes. It was here she started discussing how she thought the PP should be divided – with someone else doing the detailed summary of her interview. Really??? Makes no logical sense to me that someone do that when you did the interview!! Have not seen a response from her yet in regards to my post back to her. If I do not get one, you can bet prof will be notified.

I remember that one. I nearly peed my pants laughing when the girl in mine scanned in the signed copy of the agreement. Her notes and the person she interviewed had IDENTICAL hand writing. She didn't have the brains to hand it to a spouse or friend! My husband scoffed then looked at it and all I got was the widening of eyes and then the lifted brow!! I submitted it as I figured no one would look at it like I did and I could always play dumb as I was NOT opening that can of worms.

[Winterwhite28]

Just finished my first group project. UGH!!!!!!!!

Here comes the rant - buckle your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride!

Member that only had the job of assembling the final power point and to submit did shall we say not the best job. So anal me does the tweaking (changing font sizes, moving text and moving pics, catching others' typos and their citing mistakes). Also point out there are some missing references from reference slide. Plus, ones on there not alphabetized, not formatted correctly with hanging indent, no italics where needed, missing info....).

i point this out a few times today and gave very detailed instructions to each member (since I felt like c'mon you guys fix your own stuff and I don't have their references anyway). Some mistakes get fixed on slides but assembly chickie then puts missing references on speaker notes! Again, I post that reference slide still incorrect and speaker notes now have to be corrected....

Well, even though I swore not gonna fix other people's work, I start fixing. While I am fixing and double checking on Purdue Owl, Chickie then posts that she corrected all mistakes and is going to submit. I am like Noooooo, stop the presses - I am fixing reference slide!!!!! While I am posting for her not to submit, she posts that she submitted. She gave everyone maybe 5 or 10 minutes and I was busy fixing their mistakes so I missed her saying she was submitting. All of a sudden here comes her next post that she turned it in and thanks everyone.

I then see the version she submitted and reference slide still full of mistakes that I pointed out at least 3 times.

I then post corrected version on forum and say maybe we can ask instructor if we can send her this corrected version since it was several hrs before assignment deadline (and my advisor said you could contact instructor in a case like this). I also text this to the group. Now here comes the texts!! One member, who has not chimed in at all today and I had to fix her stuff, says sorry just seeing posts/texts and thanks to the assembly chickie for making it look nice! (Hello???? i fixed it up to make it all pretty!). Now other 2 members text that the power point looked fine like I am just cray cray! Well, if you like mistakes then I guess it does look fine.....

I give up!!!! Guess, this is just the start with many, many more group project messes to come....

So sorry for the the giant post.

Sorry Ro! Always get your name on the to submit line! Gives you final edit super powers! I would beg the instructor to accept the corrected copy and I would make it clear to the person who submitted it that in her future groups she needs to either wait a bit or get everyone to sign off by text.